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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sport was popular in the Soviet Union in the seventies?
(a) Basketball.
(b) Soccer.
(c) Baseball.
(d) Football.

2. Who came from Iowa to coach baseball?
(a) Bob Protexter.
(b) Alex Pryor.
(c) Richard Spooner.
(d) David Kauffman.

3. For what amount of time was the May Day parade in Moscow calm and uneventful?
(a) Two hours.
(b) 10 minutes.
(c) An hour.
(d) 30 minutes.

4. In what city did the Party cancel the May Day parade in 1990?
(a) Leningrad.
(b) St. Petersburg.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Irkutsk.

5. Who became president of Czechoslovakia?
(a) Sakharov.
(b) Vaclav Havel.
(c) Dubcek.
(d) Walesa.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who betrayed Aleksandr Medvedev?

2. What event in the Ukraine signaled the end of the old Soviet regime?

3. How did inmates from the Kolyma camps learn that Aleksandr Medvedev had died?

4. Why was Likhachev sentenced to a five-year term in a labor camp?

5. When did the official indoctrination into the Soviet dogma begin?

(see the answer key)

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